Example sentences of "as we [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is were double bed tuck comes into its own , because the single needle per tuck rule no longer applies as soon as we bring the front bed into work and carrying stitches . |
| 2 | But William Wright 's has a sort of voyeuristic interest as we follow the neglected child of the shipping tycoon from her English boarding school via her wild goings-on in St Moritz to her battle for control of her father 's business . |
| 3 | ‘ Where are you sleeping ? ’ she asked as we made the front door . |
| 4 | The waves seemed to increase in size as we passed the first section of headland , continuing to smash with awesome power to our right , too close to our right ! |
| 5 | There was a storm as we passed the southern tip of Cuba , and the ship I was on was smashed on to offshore rocks by the weather . |
| 6 | He pointed out several good restaurants as we passed the magnificent Stanford shopping precinct . |
| 7 | By the week 's end the proctologist was saying that it had been the best goddamned vacation he had ever taken , and as we passed the bunkering moorings near McIllvanney 's yard I saw him take Ellen aside and I guessed he was offering her a job . |
| 8 | We felt like gods as we surveyed the distraught insects ' frantic efforts to remove precious eggs from sight . |
| 9 | Late that afternoon Plague Ship Hatshepsut reaches her final mooring in ancient Thebes , and there is a chorus of clicking camera shutters as we pass the unexpected splendour of a silhouetted Luxor temple . |
| 10 | And these are all based on the allowances and it does n't matter if those are allowances are correct as long as we use the same incorrect allowances all the way through . |
| 11 | well the reason that we 've changed the name on those two stores is that any experiments we want to conduct have got to be conducted outside the normal M F I promotional platform and as we use the national press extensively the only way to do that is to change the name . |
| 12 | ‘ So of course , ’ said Bartlemas , ‘ as soon as we heard the ghastly news about Marius , we just had to rush round here … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The movement I enjoyed most was canter half-pass across the short diagonal with a flying change on the centre line , half-pass back across the diagonal and finishing with another flying change as we reached the outer track . |
| 14 | I remember the burn of shame as we stacked the silent , abandoned plates . |
| 15 | Whatever has gone wrong , it was all our fault , but we are trapped in helplessness , and as we contemplate the dull ruins of the fabric of our lives in the light that shines from our visions of what might have been , our ‘ real ’ life seems messier and drabber , and we weep in self-pity for the golden afternoons that never were ours . |
| 16 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 17 | But as we said the other week th the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then is not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine . |
| 18 | But then as we played the 13th I thought it might just be down to Bernhard and Seve . |
| 19 | First impressions were favourable , as we rounded the last of a succession of hairpin bends . |
| 20 | They circled in the wind , their cries filling the morning air as we crossed the bottom meadows into the hamlet . |
| 21 | We had also managed to scrounge plenty of drink and , as we had the whole theatre to ourselves , we played endless games of paper chase and treasure hunt in and out of the stalls and the boxes and the circle . |
| 22 | As property prices in London were moving upwards , Eva 's shrewd plan was to decorate the flat as we had the last house , sell at a profit , and move on . |
| 23 | As far as we know the microcomputer-based emergency response system devised by Belardo et al. ( 1983 ) , is the only GIS-like software to incorporate this algorithm . |
| 24 | Kick off your hand-tooled leather moccasins and kneel in a prayer-like manner as we parade the rumpy pumpy king of lurve techno , BLAKE BAXTER , before your reddened and disbelieving eyes , or go and see a play about clubbing , Excess XS , check out the GROOVE CHECK Single Of The Week , and familiarise yourself with BUMP 's all-time prime movers . |
| 25 | As we rode the four miles to Wuthering Heights , he kept asking me questions about his new home , and the father he had never seen . |
| 26 | At Magdalen Bridge , Dennis went ashore for more champagne , which passed from hand to hand as we negotiated the lower reaches of the river . |
| 27 | As we negotiated the slippery rungs of that staircase , there were always a few interested bystanders with nothing better to do than shout encouraging remarks from time to time , but we soon learnt to ignore them . |
| 28 | As we explored the roofless shells of the other buildings we remarked on the way each dwelling was sunk into the ground . |
| 29 | This , then , is the state we are in as we approach the 1990s . |
| 30 | But as we approach the far bank the hole seems to take more and more of the balls . |